Summary
Drew Bury is a Co-Founder and engineer with 8 years of experience building production-grade AI and data systems, currently leading development of a HIPAA-compliant, multi-modal health AI platform at Opti Metabolics. He blends research pedigree—publishing transformer and text-to-SQL work at SMU and studying RL at Stanford—with hands-on delivery of enterprise generative AI (KPMG) and DoD-grade mobile and optimization systems. Drew architected RAG pipelines, hybrid dense+BM25 search, and serverless backends to achieve sub-second search latencies across large document corpora, and he applies rigorous evaluation (A/B testing, survival analysis) to tie models to measurable outcomes. Comfortable from low-level algorithm design to Kubernetes infrastructure, he’s particularly energized by hard, into-the-weeds problems like search optimization, model grounding, and scaling voice/text pipelines. As a Christian, husband, and father based in Austin, he balances entrepreneurial grit with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. An often-overlooked strength: he routinely translates research ideas into compliance-ready, production systems for regulated healthcare and federal customers.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
XCS234: Reinforcement Learning Mathematics and Computer Science, XCS234: Reinforcement Learning Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford University School of Engineering
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Baylor University